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Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. She is known as the author of The New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy.



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✵ 10. August 1962
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Suzanne Collins Quotes

“"Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?"”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Katniss and Finnick, p. 316
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

“I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it… And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Variant: You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
Source: Gregor the Overlander

“No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Tagline on the back cover
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

“Upon this crown my pledge I give,
To my last breath, I hold this choice,
I will your unjust deaths avenge,
All here who died without a voice.”

Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Marks of Secret

Source: Gregor and the Marks of Secret

“I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I’m even having a heart attack, but it doesn’t seem worth mentioning.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“And we must fight back! President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that? Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (pp. 105-106)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: "I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol has just bombed a hospital full of unarmed men, women, and children. There will be no survivors. [... ] I want to tell people that if you think for one second the Capitol will treat us fairly if there's a cease-fire, you're deluding yourself. Because you know who they are and what they do. [... ] This is what they do! And we must fight back! [... ] President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?" We're with the camera, tracking to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse. Tight on the Capitol seal on a wing, which melts back into the image of my face, shouting at the president. "Fire is catching! And if we burn... you burn with us!"

“I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“While you live, the revolution lives”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem”

Suzanne Collins

“Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw

Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw

“What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?"
"I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Only.. I want to do die as myself”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Peeta" I said "Stay with me"

I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Crying is not an option.”

Suzanne Collins

“Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“turn and turn and turn again
you see the what, but not the when
remedy and wrong entwine
and so they form a single vine”

Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

Source: Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

“Got it," I say. "Did you tell Peeta this?"

"Don't have to," says Haymitch. "He's already there.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female…
I am going back into the arena.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not this. I turn to Haymitch. "Don't worry, I'll get you more liquor.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I know. I was hoping," I say.
"Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch.
I don't argue because, of course, he's right.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I don't like self-righteous people," I say.

"What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I'm so grateful that he's here, not dead by the stream as I'd thought. So glad I don't have to face Cato alone.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“You don't destroy what you want to
acquire in the future.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I wonder how she'll make up her mind."
"Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Peeta smiles at me, sad and mocking. "Okay. Thanks for the tip, sweetheart.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games